Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

34 reviews

carmapolice's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Violence, Child death, War, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

There are six stories that have individual endings but the overall story doesn’t have a conclusion at the end of the book. Each story is related.

pteroskaska's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual content, Blood, and Violence

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Grief, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Drug use, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Minor: Child death

olityr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Some of these stories were amazing, but I wish it was a stand alone. I feel like I need to continue, but I can't see how the sequel can follow this and not feel like a totally different series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

powellki's review against another edition

Boring as fuck, language is old and I can tell it was published the same year I was born. Chapters are ridiculously long, to the point it should be noted it's basically 7 short stories with only a semi-locked in plot for the rest of the book. Hard pass on the Jesus allegory of the first story where the Jesuit Priest keeps calling a group of people "small re***ds" and comparing them to children. Only made it slightly into story 2 when the sex scene was just so laughable that I couldn't continue. There was no way the position being described could be performed if the two people are in the stated positions (or unless the female was a.) an illusion, b.) a contortionist, or c.) just dislocating her arm to perform said acts). -10/10 do not recommend. Don't see why it's considered a "pillar of Sci-Fi."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Ableism, Body shaming, War, Sexual content, Self harm, Murder, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Body horror, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Medical trauma, and Medical content

drtone's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

The Shrike is the most interesting thing about this story yet we never get to experience it.  The entire book is about a pilgrimage to this  thing and then it ends before they actually encounter it.  I’m sure in the follow-up novels this happens but I don’t plan on reading them.  The whole mastermind triple agent plot felt entirely rushed and I didn’t have any stake in it.  There was no “ah ha” moment as I’m sure was intended.  

I thought the first 2/3rds of the book were interesting and the personal stories were intriguing. The last two though just made me want to be done.  I’ll just Wikipedia the rest of the series and find out what happens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

kalobar's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I found this book to be just okay. There were several times where I felt bored by the language and obviously-written-by-a-man of it. And the end felt kind of lazy to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

jadelaporte's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

arl949's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Death, and Colonisation

doublenerds's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Suicide